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Tangerine dream, Pink Floyed, ELP, Vandergraf generator, I grew up surrounded by this music. But it never realy stuck, i guess because that period of my life was not entirly or exactly idilic. Infact, in the movie of my life this period will be the nightmare sequence.

However, i was reading some thing the other day about Salvador Dali that made me revisit Tangerine Dream, and I have to say i have fallen in love with Phaedra.

And that is all i have to realy say about that..
So now, if you wanna,, go head and sell me the rest.

Oh, and if you have an interest in the development of electronic music, go check out this record...

Phaedra is awesome. Have the gatefold vinyl!

For me, mid-eighties is when it went downhill with TD. Poland is probably last good thing they did. IMO.

+1 on Poland . . .

8O wrote:For me, mid-eighties is when it went downhill with TD.

yeah, puberty sucked, life is much better these days.

got links to the good stuff? I never got into them. I only think of them as background music to nature flicks, very good background music.

Tangerine Dream was a huge influence to me getting started in music. But much like the band you were in in high school, they kind of fell off my radar too but still have to give them props for starting things off for me.

i always liked stratosphere best. and rubycon. and tangram. i can't listen to them everyday, but when i'm in the mood its the best stuff in the world.

Had the pleasure of seeing/photographing Edgar & Co. play last year at Loreley/Germany - they ROCKED live, complete with two musically brilliant hotties onboard!

http://www.pbase.com/jaydubz/tdlorelery&page=all

Phaedra was a huge influence on me. When I bought my first ever synth, an SH-101, I used to program a 3 note pattern into the step-sequencer and then wiggle the sliders. It was basically how I learned analog synthesis. I thought I sounded exactly like TD!! (The notes were C, E flat and F, BTW)

Poland is a fantastic live record, but Logos still rocks my socks off to this very day...

Tone Deft wrote:

8O wrote:For me, mid-eighties is when it went downhill with TD.

yeah, puberty sucked, life is much better these days.

roach808 wrote:Poland is a fantastic live record, but Logos still rocks my socks off to this very day...

Did Logos come after Poland? Will have to update my judgement then... Logos rocks...

Tone Deft wrote:got links to the good stuff? I never got into them. I only think of them as background music to nature flicks, very good background music.

Just reading through this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_ ... iscography - pretty much the whole of the Virgin years are great, worth checking out... After that, things got steadily more cheesy synth-pop new age-ish, plus saxophones...

Here's a nice bit of the Virgin years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_QXc5duq-4

Edit: plus a really nice 30 minute Poland video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5486965872#

oh my god, those videos are funny as hell, the 80s are in my eyes probably the worse decade ever, tasteless, soulless, ugly as hell... just pure shite.
i mean TD, ok, but the 80s arrrggghhhh.... so bad. makes even good music appear bad, it's like DM, i only can listen to the old stuff if i don't have to see videos and can forget the decade it was made in... then again you hear that 80s synth pop urrgghh... sound / production.

sorry, but i just watched the TD stuff after breakfast, wasn't a good idea, for me.

i should be able to detach the music from the decade, right? but i am not

Yes yes yes!

Tangerine Dream!

Rubycon and Phaedra, two of the albums I would always like to keep near me just in case the urge to listen to them hits. Well, much of their other stuff from around that period as well. True pioneers with a pulsing, haunting, atmospheric, rocking sound

Finally an appreciation page for the mighty TD! I went to one of the sites to look at the discography section and I have most of Pink/Virgin/Melrose/Blue years and some beyond that. I lost interest in them when they went the more happy route/new-age sounding. But for me the stuff they did in the 70's to mid 80's was their absolute best IMHO. I would have loved to seen them live back then. And I've been listening to them since very early 80's personally.

Mike